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Re: Historical harpischord ranges
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Gordon Collins <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:15:23 -0400
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On 10/29/16 11:52, dc wrote:
> Le 29/10/2016 16:13, J. Claudio Di Veroli écrit :
>> BASS GG#/AAb
>>
>> - J.S. Bach scored this note in the 3rd mov. of the Concerto for Four
>> Harpsichords BWV1065 (c.1736).
> 
> Also several AAb's in the fugue of BWV 998.

BWV 997 as well.


Some other sets of pieces calling for notes outside of GG,AA-d3:

JC Smith (c1732): eb3, e3

Dagincour (1733): d#3, e3
Dagincour states that he wrote "La Moderne" in the new style "at the request of several people".  It not only calls for e3, but hammers at it and descends (through d#3) via a scale passage.  There's no faking that one.

Corrette (1734): FF, GG#

Boismortier (1736): e3

Barriere (1740-7): FF, FF#, GG#, d#3, e3

Duphly (1744): FF, eb3, e3

Royer (1746): FF, FF#, AAb

Forqueray (1747): FF, FF#, GG#/AAb

Duphly (1748): GG#, e3

AL Couperin (1751), Balbastre (1759), Duphly (1758,1768): each book uses all of the range FF,GG-d3,e3.


This is just from my small library.  There was a great deal published in France alone after 1735 that I have never seen.

Gordon

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